As sure as the sun rises, houses collect dust. It gathers on our knickknacks and dirties the carpets. More than just dirt, house dust is a mix of sloughed-off skin cells, hair, clothing fibers, ...

Fine dust that you can’t see lurks in the air inside any heavily used workshop, and it does serious damage to your lungs over time. Not all dust is equal: Silica, metal, wood, and fibrous dust carry ...

Think you’re allergic to dust? Dr PS Pradeep Kumar says it’s not the dust – it’s what’s living inside it. Read on as he ...

When a sunbeam hits just right, you see them: tiny particles of dust suspended in the air. They look innocuous—until you stop to think about their tendency to collect on surfaces throughout your house ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks ...

Earlier this year, the head of the United Mineworkers of America called for changes to the regulation of silica dust in mines, demanding stricter standards for working conditions. The particles have ...

To the average person, walking into a flour- or sawmill and seeing dust swirling around is unlikely to evoke much of a response, but those in the know are quite likely to bolt for the nearest exit at ...

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning and the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now ...